During our recent cruise in the Eastern Caribbean, we walked barefoot on the beaches' powdery sand and snorkeled amongst tropical fish and sting rays in the aqua blue waters.
At the different ports of call: Grand Turk, San Juan, St. Thomas, and Half Moon Cay, we discovered something else of an exquisite aqua blue - the larimar stone.
The aqua blue and white stone can only be found the Dominican Republic, and it evokes the sand and sea images of the Caribbean. In 1974 a Peace Corps volunteer Norman Rilling and a Dominican, Miguel Mendez, officially discovered the stone and named it after the latter's daughter Larissa and the Spanish word for sea "mar".
Here is a piece of larimar I purchased in St. Thomas. I've knotted it on suede with cultured pearls, chyrsopase and apatite stones. Now I have souvenir to wear and an excuse to get back to the Caribbean to search for more larimar!
At the different ports of call: Grand Turk, San Juan, St. Thomas, and Half Moon Cay, we discovered something else of an exquisite aqua blue - the larimar stone.
The aqua blue and white stone can only be found the Dominican Republic, and it evokes the sand and sea images of the Caribbean. In 1974 a Peace Corps volunteer Norman Rilling and a Dominican, Miguel Mendez, officially discovered the stone and named it after the latter's daughter Larissa and the Spanish word for sea "mar".
Here is a piece of larimar I purchased in St. Thomas. I've knotted it on suede with cultured pearls, chyrsopase and apatite stones. Now I have souvenir to wear and an excuse to get back to the Caribbean to search for more larimar!